Best Ilion Poems
Dante's Divina Commedia Translation...The difficult translation of first Canto of Divina Commedia is here completed
In the part published before, Dante imagined to find himself in a dark forest where he met three beasts.
Now he is going......
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Categories:
ilion, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
Dante's Divine Comedy First Canto Translation...Premise
The great poem by the italian poet Dante is the DIVINA COMMEDIA
I have tried to translate in english verses of INFERNO (HELL).
It was a very difficult task.
I expect criticism.
When j......
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Categories:
ilion, dream, poems,
Form:
Terza Rima
Robot-Assisted Surgery...Appointment to have organ removed by robot-assisted surgeon.
Air-conditioned, no mosquitoes in the OR. When you arrive
You'll remove all your clothes. Naked before the ladies, nurses
Who have seen......
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Categories:
ilion, beauty, death, father, fear,
Form:
Verse
Tyrian Sails Across Stormy Seas Sailed...Tyrian Sails Across Stormy Seas Sailed
Tyrian sails across stormy seas sailed,
and a bold prince they deliver
At every port cheerily he was hailed,
as an arrow straight from its quiver
Bade he......
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Categories:
ilion, conflict, history, passion, romance,
Form:
Rhyme
Ilion...To the one I see in a star
The brightest of them all and the
Closest to my heart.
My Evening Star, sweet Ilion,
How you’ve helped me so.
You’ve healed me
And you’ve guided me,
But I’m afrai......
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Categories:
ilion, dedication, faith, family, friendship,
Form:
Sappho Translations IV...Sappho Translations IV by Michael R. Burch
Sappho, fragment 133
translation by Michael R. Burch
Blushing bride, brimful of rose-petaled love,
brightest jewel of the Goddess of Paphos,
come t......
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Categories:
ilion, friend, joy, love, marriage,
Form:
Free verse